Two weeks ago, privacy advocates across the country celebrated as the Federal Bureau of Investigation backed off its request for Apple to help gain access intoiPhone...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | April 11, 2016
Nearly 20 years ago, after a chess-playing computer called Deep Blue beat the world grandmaster Garry Kasparov, I wrote an article about why humans would long remain...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | April 5, 2016
The praise this week for Andy Grove, who died on Monday at age 79, has been wrapped up in praise for Silicon Valley, where he was a towering figure in the semiconductor...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | March 28, 2016
ALPHAGO, the artificial intelligence system built by the Google subsidiary DeepMind, has just defeated the human champion, Lee Se-dol, four games to one in the...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | March 16, 2016
Let's say computers come for most of our jobs. This may not seem likely at the moment; computer scientists and economists offer wildly varying ideas for how deeply...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | March 3, 2016
Fred Kaplan has written a consistently eye-opening history of our government’s efforts to effectively manage our national security in the face of the largely open...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | March 1, 2016
The technology for altering defects in the human genome has progressed so rapidly in the last three years that it has outstripped the ability of scientists and...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | December 18, 2015
Welcome to the era of AI-human hybrid intelligence, where people and artificial intelligence systems work together seamlessly.The New York Times From ACM Opinion | December 14, 2015
It was the end of a long combat patrol near a district called Adhamiyah, in northwest Baghdad, in the fall of 2008.The New York Times From ACM Opinion | November 6, 2015
This month marks the 100th anniversary of the General Theory of Relativity, the most beautiful theory in the history of science, and in its honor we should take...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | November 2, 2015
College students tell me they know how to look someone in the eye and type on their phones at the same time, their split attention undetected.The New York Times From ACM Opinion | September 29, 2015
Last month over a thousand scientists and tech-world luminaries, including Elon Musk, Stephen Hawking and Steve Wozniak, released an open letter calling for a global...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | August 18, 2015
Shortly after its founding, Google posted a document on its site called "Ten things we know to be true," an effort to distill its unusual corporate culture into...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | August 11, 2015
More than a year ago, in a decision that stunned many American Internet companies, Europe's highest court ruled that search engines were required to grant an unusual...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | August 6, 2015